The state’s newest millionaire is 56-year-old Daniel Snay of Uxbridge, who hasn’t always been treated so kindly by the commonwealth of Massachusetts, which convicted him six times of indecent assault and battery in the 1970s and 1980s.

“I’m flabbergasted,” said Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance, who said Mr. Snay could face charges there because he failed to verify his address or notify officials when he moved from Moosup to Massachusetts in 2004. “His whereabouts, until you told me about this, have been unknown to us. But I guess you could say he’s very fortunate.”

You could say. On Jan. 16, Mr. Snay bought a $20 scratch ticket at a Cumberland Farms in Hopedale and won a cool $10 million. Two weeks later, he received the first of 20 $500,000 checks, before taxes.

Mr. Snay drives trucks for a yacht dealership in Mendon. He wouldn’t talk to me last week, but his lawyer called Mr. Snay a “quiet” man who plans to use the bulk of his winnings to help his five grown children. There also are plans to buy a house in Connecticut, where some of the children live. He’s divorced and rents a small apartment in Uxbridge.

“He’s tried to stay off the radar,” said lawyer Joseph M. Fabbricotti of Westboro.

Asked if his client was worried that the publicity over his winnings would call attention to his not-so-winning past, Mr. Fabbricotti said, “He was concerned, but there’s not much you can do about it … We talked about it and he understood this was one of the repercussions that could happen.”

What they didn’t talk about, apparently, was whether Mr. Snay would donate any of his newfound riches to aid the victims of sexual abuse. “I don’t know the answer to that,” Mr. Fabbricotti said.

Mr. Snay’s record of sexual assaults goes back to 1974, when he received a one-year suspended sentence for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. He violated his probation and was imprisoned for a year. In 1976, he was slapped with a 5- to 7-year state prison sentence after being convicted, again, of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.

According to newspaper records, a state police search was launched in November 1978 after Mr. Snay escaped from the Southeastern Correctional Institute in Bridgewater.

In July 1986, Mr. Snay received two concurrent two-year sentences for indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, although newspaper records say that he was charged that same year in Worcester Superior Court for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old Northbridge boy in Mr. Snay’s home. It was unclear if the final charges and sentence were the result of a plea agreement.

In October 1987, he again was slapped with two two-year terms, to be served concurrently, for indecent assault and battery on a person over 14.

Mr. Snay is classified as a Level 3 sex offender on the state’s Sex Offender Registry Board. Level 3 offenders are considered the most dangerous and the most likely to re-offend.

He was arrested several years ago in Upton for failing to register as a sex offender, but his lawyer said it was a mix-up because Mr. Snay had a post office box in that town, but didn’t live there. In Connecticut, however, that state’s registry board lists him as “not in compliance” because he failed to notify police in 2004 that he was moving, Lt. Vance said. He said police plan to review Mr. Snay’s case to determine if charges will be filed.

The Massachusetts Lottery Commission said it was unaware of Mr. Snay’s background until it was contacted by Uxbridge residents. Regardless, Mr. Snay has the right to buy scratch tickets.

“We were very concerned, given the nature of the convictions,” said Lottery spokesman Dan Rosenfeld. “The vast majority of our players are regular, law-abiding, hard-working individuals … We regret any difficulties this may have caused.”

Uxbridge Police Sgt. Peter Emerick put it another way: “People see winning the lottery as a reward. This is certainly not an area that I would reward.”

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